Tagged: war

What is Gallipoli?

World War I is ancient history. It passed from living memory with the death of the last veteran this year. It’s not a “good” war...

Wikimedia commons image of WWii japanese flag

The Last Soldier

In parts of Halmahera, they remember Teruo Nakamura as the good Japanese. You know. The one who didn’t rape and kill and pillage. Didn’t enslave...

Zac, dad and bike at the end of the road, Cat Ba island, Halong Bay, Vietnam

Easy Riders

We’ve been exploring Cat Ba island, which splatters like a Rorschach blot off the northern coast of Vietnam, trailing 300-odd islets in its wake. It’s...

Age Appropriate Reading

The creator of the immortal line “The bitches mortared the piss hole and it didn’t blow up!” has, this evening, completed his reading of Chickenhawk,...